ALLOW me to correct misunderstandings that may have arisen from the latest Lib Dem newsletter to fall through letterboxes in York.

Despite their good results in the May 2003 local elections, which included the outer York wards where they are very strong at local level, in the much smaller City of York constituency they are extremely unlikely to topple Labour MP, Hugh Bayley's 14,000 majority.

They came third in the last General Election behind the Tories and are campaigning hard in other seats, not here. The Green Party, on the other hand, while also probably not in a position to topple Mr Bayley this time, could win an increased vote in this election (despite being ignored in the Lib Dem statistics altogether).

In the 2003 local elections our aggregated vote for City of York Constituency was ten per cent, one per cent more than the Tories.

In the European elections our vote in York was nine per cent.

Support for Green politics is growing as more and more people realise the so-called main parties differ very little from each other and consistently fail to put into practice their fine words about facing up to climate change and its consequences.

They cannot be trusted.

Greens stand for clear and consistent policies on social justice, the protection of local communities, real action on the environment and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

I urge anyone who cannot bring themselves to vote for their traditional party to look at www.greenparty.org.uk for more details and vote for a party they believe in on May 5.

Andy D'Agorne,

Green Party candidate for York, Broadway West,

York.

Updated: 09:53 Saturday, April 23, 2005